{"id":949971,"date":"2026-07-21T16:40:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T16:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/949971\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T16:40:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T16:40:24","slug":"rapoport-academy-students-paint-mural-on-the-hangar-in-downtown-waco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/949971\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapoport Academy students paint mural on The Hangar in Downtown Waco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">WACO, Texas (KWTX) &#8211; When you drive through Downtown Waco, The Hangar used to blend in\u2014just a steel structure. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Now, it\u2019s impossible to miss: a bright, bold new mural stretches across the side of the building, painted by students from Rapoport Academy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Over the past three weeks, the students have spent hours each morning working together to bring the design to life. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The mural was created to reflect The Hangar\u2019s mission of serving Waco\u2019s unsheltered community, while also sharing a message to the public that everyone is valued and welcome.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The colorful piece features people owners Laurie and Dusty Kirk know well from around the community\u2014faces that represent the relationships built through the organization\u2019s work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cSomething really important for us is that they get recognized as people, not as homeless and that\u2019s kind of what this mural was about and it\u2019s the way we do our mission here just to make them feel like friends and hopefully it begins the end of homelessness for them,\u201d Dusty Kirk said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Organizers say the mural project is expected to wrap up soon.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KWTX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WACO, Texas (KWTX) &#8211; When you drive through Downtown Waco, The Hangar used to blend in\u2014just a steel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":949972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[32],"tags":[648,1032,104,2132,1033,171,7220,7218,7217,7219,7221,67,132,68,7216],"class_list":["post-949971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-live-speeches","tag-live-updates","tag-live-video","tag-press-conference","tag-real-time-coverage","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-video-updates"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116958961879706687","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/949972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}